Removing single user from gdm

**TheWeakSleep** · September 18th, 2010

I have a quick question that I haven't been able to find an answer for so far. Is it possible to 'hide' a user from the user list in gdm? Note that I don't want to remove it entirely, I just want a user that you can only get into by clicking 'other', entering your name and password.

Can anybody help me?

**sisco311** · September 18th, 2010

Yes. :)

Edit the /etc/gdm/gdm.schemas file:

Code:

gksu gedit /etc/gdm/gdm.schemas

Find the Exclude section:

Code:

...
    <schema>
      <key>greeter/Exclude</key>
      <signature>s</signature>
      <default>bin,root,daemon,adm,lp,sync,shutdown,halt,mail,news,uucp,operator,nobody,nobody4,noaccess,postgres,pvm,rpm,nfsnobody,pcap</default>
    </schema>
...

and add the user to the list:

Code:

...
    <schema>
      <key>greeter/Exclude</key>
      <signature>s</signature>
      <default>username,bin,root,daemon,adm,lp,sync,shutdown,halt,mail,news,uucp,operator,nobody,nobody4,noaccess,postgres,pvm,rpm,nfsnobody,pcap</default>
    </schema>
...

where username is the login name of the user.